CVSS 3.1
8.8 highCVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:HCVE-2022-1329
High (8.8) in elementor website builder. EPSS 93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
The Elementor Website Builder plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to unauthorized execution of several AJAX actions due to a missing capability check in the ~/core/app/modules/onboarding/module.php file that make it possible for attackers to modify site data in addition to uploading malicious files that can be used to obtain remote code execution, in versions 3.6.0 to 3.6.2.
Severity
- EPSS
- 93% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 99% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWEs
- CWE-862, CWE-434
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- elementor:website_builder
References
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168615/WordPress-Elementor-3.6.2-Shell-Upload.html
- https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/changeset/2708766/elementor/trunk/core/app/modules/onboarding/module.php
- https://www.pluginvulnerabilities.com/2022/04/12/5-million-install-wordpress-plugin-elementor-contains-authenticated-remote-code-execution-rce-vulnerability/
- https://www.wordfence.com/blog/2022/04/elementor-critical-remote-code-execution-vulnerability/
- http://packetstormsecurity.com/files/168615/WordPress-Elementor-3.6.2-Shell-Upload.html